An afternoon local from San Francisco pulls past the beautifully-preserved tower and into the station at Santa Clara.

Looking good with the older AmCal logo, F59 2003 leads Capitol Corridor train 541 into the station at Emeryville.

Presumably headed to the port of Oakland, a UP stack train cruises past the Amtrak station at Emeryville.

A UP switcher holds for Capitol Corridor train 537 to clear before making a crossover move.

I had been hoping for a train with east-facing locomotives - which, at Jack London Square, are quite hard to come by - to try this shot, so when I saw an eastbound UP train in the distance, I thou... (more)

An eastbound Capitol Corridor slips through Jack London Square on its way to Sacramento.

Deep within the bowels of Great Western Malting's substantial operation in Vancouver, one of the company's plant switchers shuffles cars amid the industrial clutter.

With cars from the Georgia-Pacific mill at the current end of active track on PNWR's Astoria branch, the Wauna Turn approaches Clatskanie, where the train will lift five loaded centerbeams from th... (more)

The warbonnets may say "BNSF" and the containers may be hauling trash... but I'll take it!

Continuing along the Thompson between Spences Bridge and Lytton.

In CP/CN directional running territory - eastbounds via CP and westbounds via CN - this combined manifest and intermodal works its way down the Thompson River canyon on home rails as it approaches... (more)

One of CN's first SD70M-2s leads a westbound manifest/intermodal train down the Thompson Canyon between Ashcroft and Spences Bridge.

Splitting the lanes of the Bow Trail, a trio of Calgary Transit's older Siemens-Duewag-built U2 cars climbs upgrade on approach to Shaganappi station.

The grain train that held up train 101 at Banff skirts the Bow River just west of Exhsaw.

I went for sky. Mathieu went for ground.